Supporting Buy a Bale

Slow Food Hunter Valley volunteers were thrilled to be running the Cool Bar at the Maitland Show. This gave us the opportunity to raise money to support the Buy a Bale Hunter Appeal for our local farmers. According to the Maitland Mercury “The Maitland Mercury, Newcastle Herald, Hunter Valley News and The Scone Advocate have joined forces with the charity Rural Aid and its Buy A Bale Campaign to help Hunter farmers as they fight to survive the dry conditions” (see full details here).

Thank you to our farmers who came up with the produce in spite of the harsh weather. Thanks to Liz for her excellent teas, Andrew for keeping the ice supply going and making a huge contribution to the pack. Thanks to Amorelle for working behind the scenes as well as at the show. Thanks to Bob and Helen for making the yummy watermelon granita which was a hit and to everyone else who juiced, served, publicised, cleaned, sold, talked, cleaned some more, organised, sliced, diced, hefted watermelon, flogged achachas and … you guessed it … cleaned some more. Well done!

We would like to say thank you to Felicia and Amorelle who made a final push to increase sales by carrying around watermelons and doing the “hard sell” on stragglers and other traders at the show.

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Acknowledegment of Place

Slow Food Hunter Valley acknowledges that we live and work on the lands of the Wannaruah, Worimi & Awabakal people, who cared for and shared the abundance of our Mother Earth, sustainably, for thousands of years. They inspire us in our vision of good, clean, fair food for all.

We wish to pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging and we honour the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within Australia and the Slow Food community.